The People’s Blog

Greetings, We have a Senate budget!  Read on for a summary of our team’s budget priorities, followed by a calendar of events (and pictures of the cutest possible goat and lamb). On Thursday [...]

Greetings, MassDOT will be terminating the proposed roundabout project at Hatfield and North King Streets. MassDOT has expressed that its decision stems largely from the public comments they [...]

Greetings,  The top of this newsletter is all about redistricting. The bottom half contains a lot of important updates. Once every decade, the U.S. takes a census — a count — of the people living [...]

As part of my commitment to equity and opportunity in education, I introduced legislation to amend state law requiring the MCAS test to be used as a high school graduation requirement and as the [...]

Join me in celebrating the dozen incredible humans who are helping to power the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester State Senate team. These interns and public health fellows are engaged in issue [...]

Greetings, Beginning Monday, April 19, all Massachusetts residents ages 16 and older become eligible for a COVID vaccine. Since the vaccine first became available, Sam Hopper from our team has [...]

Greetings,  Read on for an invitation to an April 26 Town Hall where we’ll look together to the future of our district, post-COVID. The legislature jumped right into the 2021-2022 session. In [...]

Today the Senate passed important legislation that aims directly at workers and employers recovering from the COVID pandemic and economic crisis. As shots go into arms, and federal American [...]

Today the Senate sent an omnibus climate — A Next Generation Climate Roadmap — bill to the House, before it goes to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. Here are 10 things to know: [...]

On Wednesday, February 24, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG), Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC), and Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) collaborated with our [...]